The Artemis-I vehicle will be pulled off the launch pad in Florida to protect it from storm forces.
The American space agency is to pull its Artemis-I Moon rocket off the launch pad in Florida because of an approaching hurricane.
Hurricane Ian is moving through the Gulf of Mexico and is expected to make landfall in Florida on Thursday.Although the spaceport will probably escape the worst of the storm's impacts, Nasa can't risk its multi-billion-dollar rocket being damaged. Nasa had hoped the storm's track through the Gulf would take it sufficiently westwards so that the rocket could stay out on the pad, enabling a lift-off to take place sooner.
The slow speed at which this Crawler Transporter moves means the 6.7km journey to the VAB takes the best part of half a day. Engineers will therefore want to get it under way as soon as possible.Artemis-I is the first in a series of missions that will eventually see humans return to the lunar surface after an absence of 50 years.
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